CHITTENANGO MIDDLE SCHOOL

As a reasonably sized junior high in CHITTENANGO, New York, CHITTENANGO MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls 558 students from grades 5 through 8, part of CHITTENANGO CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT.

Across the 4 schools in CHITTENANGO CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT (1,893 students total), CHITTENANGO MIDDLE SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, CHITTENANGO MIDDLE SCHOOL shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%). Beyond that, the school lists 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Madison County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, CHITTENANGO MIDDLE SCHOOL has 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 37% of students at CHITTENANGO MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), CHITTENANGO MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.5%, the actual is 55.9%, a residual of -5.7 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Madison County) logs that median household income runs about $75,499, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Madison County runs 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,402 students), of which CHITTENANGO MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

BOLIVAR ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, CHITTENANGO MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 60.2%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at CHITTENANGO MIDDLE SCHOOL has decreased 10%, going from 620 students in 2018 to 558 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 12.9:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 in 2025.

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